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Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs   |  Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook?     U.S. Election Day: What Was Your Experience? Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs  Why It May Be Illegal to Instagram Your Ballot Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook?  Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application  Voting Machine Problem Reports Rolled in Early on Election Day Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date  New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles  Apple Suit Against Motorola Over FRAND Licensing Rates Dismissed  iPad Mini Costs $24 More To Make Than Kindle Fire HD  Ask Slashdot: Extreme Cable Management?  Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm  Actual Final Third Party Debate Happened Tuesday Night GM Brings IT Dev Back In House; Self-Driving Caddy In the Works  David Braben Kickstarts an Elite Reboot     U.S. Election Day: What Was Your Experience? From the meet-the-new-boss department Yesterday was Election Day in the U.S. If you took part in Tuesday's election, what did you find? Did you vote electronically, or on paper? How long did you wait to vote? Did you vote weeks ago by mail? How much time did you put into...   Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs  From the you-and-what-ARMy department concealment sends this quote from Bloomberg: "Apple Inc. is exploring ways to replace Intel processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad, according to people familiar with the...   Why It May Be Illegal to Instagram Your Ballot From the underground-ballot-parties department Proud voters posted their ballots on Instagram yesterday, but ProPublica's Lois Beckett reports that you may want to check your state laws before you do the same during the next election since showing your marked ballot to other people is actually illegal in...   Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook?  From the why-confine-the-question-by-age? department colinneagle writes "Andrew Mayhall is 19 years old and is running a server company, called Evtron, whose product has reportedly set the world record for data density (4.6 petabytes per server rack) and has begun attracting attention from...   Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application  From the anti-trust-suit-anyone? department redletterdave writes "Even though Apple's App Store has also been friendly enough to offer alternative mapping applications to ameliorate customers upset with Apple's new default Maps app, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company may not be so friendly...   Voting Machine Problem Reports Rolled in Early on Election Day From the let-the-conspiracy-nuttery-commence department Several readers submitted news of the inevitable problems involved with trying to securely collect information from tens of millions of people on the same day. A video is making the rounds of a touchscreen voting machine registering a vote...   Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date  From the linus-now-has-license-to-swear-at-more-companies department leppi writes "Nvidia has announced a huge increase in Linux gaming performance for their GeForce R310 drivers after almost a year of development alongside Valve and other game developer partners. Nvidia's announcement also indicated the Steam beta...   New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles  From the solution-to-the-wrong-problem department Hugh Pickens writes "PBS reports on a proposal of arming Syrian rebels with a force equalizer to make a decisive blow against Bashar al-Assad's ruling regime — an idea that has so far failed to take hold inside the Obama administration...   Apple Suit Against Motorola Over FRAND Licensing Rates Dismissed  From the stop-wasting-our-time department chill writes "A suit by Apple claiming that Motorola Mobility, now owned by Google, is seeking unreasonably high license fees for the use of patents on wireless technology has been thrown out by a judge in Madison, Wisconsin. Last week, Apple told...   iPad Mini Costs $24 More To Make Than Kindle Fire HD  From the price-theory-at-work department sweetpea86 writes "... but retails for $130 more. Teardowns of the Apple iPad Mini and the Amazon Kindle Fire HD have revealed that the two devices cost almost the same amount to manufacture, despite the retail prices being significantly...   Ask Slashdot: Extreme Cable Management?  From the worthless-without-pics department An anonymous reader writes "I am not a fan of wireless except for Wi-Fi to a notebook, but have gotten frustrated by the vast amounts of tangled cables around my computers: I have two machines, four monitors, multiple external hard drives, cable...   Skype Hands Teenager's Information To Private Firm  From the but-we-were-friends department New submitter andrew3 writes "Skype has allegedly handed the information of a 16-year-old boy to a security firm. The information was later handed over to Dutch law enforcement. No court order was served for the disclosure. The teenager was...   Actual Final Third Party Debate Happened Tuesday Night From the all-was-quiet-election-eve department Separate from the debate moderated by Ralph Nader Monday night, Free and Equal hosted a final third party debate Tuesday night at 9:00 p.m. EST. As a follow up to the October 23rd debate, only Jill Stein...   GM Brings IT Dev Back In House; Self-Driving Caddy In the Works  From the oh-christine department dstates writes "Want a good job in IT? Detroit of all places may be the place to be. GM is bringing IT development back in house to speed innovation. Among other initiatives, a self driving Cadillac is planned by mid decade. Ford is also...   David Braben Kickstarts an Elite Reboot  From the not-the-movie-killer-elite department An anonymous reader writes "The BBC report that David Braben has launched a Kickstarter for a remake of Elite, the classic space trading game that he co-wrote in the 1980s. It has already received £122,000 in less than a day."

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